The Minister for Mental Health has been briefed on the death of a baby found in a wheelie bin in Auckland. A severed ...

MetService wanted to issue a severe weather warning the day before a devastating cyclone made landfall in 2023, but faced opposition from ...

NZers who moved overseas without paying their student loans are living with skyrocketing debt because of compounding ...

One patient suffered extreme pain after a piece of tooth was left in his gum, and another person was hospitalised after her cheek was pierced ...

Otago Nuggets guard Don Carey jun will miss the final two games of the National Basketball League season. The 26-year-old American is ...

A severed fibreoptic cable is behind a mobile phone and internet outage across large parts of Golden Bay, in Tasman. Police ...

It’s quarterfinal time this weekend on ODT Rugby Chat and we talk to two of the contenders in Dunedin and Southern. Otago Paralympian Adam Hall has been selected for his sixth Paralympic Winter Games ...

Rugby union has a lot of competition in Australia, with rugby league, AFL, soccer, and cricket. However, 2025 might go down as a significant ...

Organisers of the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival have had to cancel the second night of the event due to bad weather. The theme of the festival this year is Wings of Wonder and First Church was ...

Dunedin has welcomed its first international flight since 2020. The flight from Gold Coast Airport in Coolangatta, Queensland touched down at about 2.30pm, 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Passengers in ...

Out in the dark, on a frost-bitten Saturday in Middlemarch, I turned my telescope towards Messier 83. Astronomers call it a barred spiral ...

Māori voters who would like to change electoral rolls before the local elections have until July 10 to make their choice. "If you are Māori, ...